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La Jara. one of the principal towns of Conejas County, and the fertile San Luis 
Valley, is located on the D. & R. G. Railroad, about eighteen miles northeast of the 
southwestern limit of the valley, it is surrounded by a level country that posses- 
ses a soil unequaled for fertility ar.d unsurpassed for crop production. From this 
vicinity many of the Worlds prizes ha\e been captured on live stock, wheat oats, 
barlej', potatoes and garden vegetables. 

This section does not only possess an abundance of water for iriigation 
from the natural streams, the San An tone, Conejas, La Jara, Hot Creek. Alamosa 
and Rio Grande rivers, but has in addition sheet water at the depth of about twelve 
feet underlying the valley everywhere and available for irrigation by pumping. 
Also artesian water available at all de])ths below seventy feet, which when tapped 
with a well six inches in diameter will flow day in and day out. by the year, one- 
half cubic foot per second, insuring to this part of Colorado an abundance of water 
iov all agricultural and domestic purposes. 

The artesian Water is chemically pure. The local druggists use it in its nat- 
ural state without distilling in the compounding of medicines. 

It is a noted fact that the several parts of the state are each characterized by 
producing some specialty in agricultural, horticultural, manufactured, mining 
or other products. 

So this part of the State excels in the yield and cxuality of grain. The prin- 
cipal crops are oats, wheat, barlej-, potatoes and peas. Small fruit does well. 
The cereals yield from thirty' to one hundred bushels per acre, potatoes from 
two to four hundred bushels per acre. 

The grain raised for fattening purposes are barley and peas, peas are sewn 
the same as any other small grain, irrigated once and then allowed to ripen — to 
mature. When ripe the hogs or sheep are turned in and they do the harvesting 
and in a fe^v weeks fatten themselves readj' for market. The average profits by 
this method of f aiming are abcut t^^ cnty dollais per acre per season. The San 
Luis valley has on several occasions <aptured first prize on sugar beets for yield, 
size and saccharine matter. In llto:! it carried off first prize at the Pueblo State 
Fair on potatoes, oats, wheat and barley, a total of fourteen prizes first and second 
being awarded us. 

La .Jara has a mill acd elevator of two hundred and fifty barrel capacity 
but it is inadequate to handle the supply of grain marketed here. 

The climate of the San Luis Valley is noted as being the mo.st healthful in 
the world— here Consuniptiim. Asthma and kinderd diseases are unknown. 

Any one desiring futher information regarding this valley will plea.se write 
W. A. Biaiden. n:€ mbtr of the Mii-soxui lacihc Immigration i>urcau. 

I^a .lara. Colorado. 



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